Various techniques for the surgical treatment of common bile duct stones: A meta review

Gastroenterology Research and Practice

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Mehrabi, Arianeb ^b   Shojaiefard, Abolfazl ^a   Esmaeilzadeh, Majid ^b   Ghafouri, Ali ^a  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOGLYCOSIDE; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; PENICILLIN G; PIPERACILLIN; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM;

CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CHOLEDOCHOTOMY; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMMON BILE DUCT STONE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC SPHINCTEROTOMY; EXTRACORPOREAL LITHOTRIPSY; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LASER LITHOTRIPSY; LITHOTRIPSY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSHEPATIC CHOLANGIOGRAPHY; PEROPERATIVE CHOLANGIOGRAPHY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; REVIEW; SPHINCTEROTOMY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

EID: 69249217810     PISSN: 16876121     EISSN: 1687630X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2009/840208     Document Type: Review

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